Daniel Dubois

Daniel Dubois was a general of the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War. Dubois was a conservative Bonapartist, and he rose through the ranks of the Second French Empire's army before coming to command a 50,000-strong French field army on the border with Germany. In 1870, Helmuth von Moltke's Prussian army defeated Dubois' army and inflicted 12,979 losses on the French, forcing Dubois to retreat further into France.